mmm.. I just finished "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem which was made into a movie thats being released this Friday I think. From the ads its seems NOTHING like the book, but oh well. The book was kinda slow-going but interesting. Its about an ocean planet who's sea is "alive"
Also I'm a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut, of the books of his I read I loved:
Slaughterhouse 5 - horrors of WWII from an American's viewpoint (sorta scifi, depends how you look at it)
Cat's Cradle - reckless technology (sci-fi-ish)
Mother Night. - Mother Night is one of my all-time favorite books. wow. its about paradoxes, spies, propaganda and Nazi Germany. (straight fiction)
also Sphere by Michael Chrichton was really good but I read it before I saw the movie, so if you saw the movie it would ruin it for you.
Its basically a sci-fi novel about something they find under the ocean that shouldn't be there.
I have Cat's Cradle up in my room because I was supposed to read it for my History final project last year but I read Brave New World instead..is it definetly worth making time for?
"Cat's Cradle" for a History class? that sounds kinda far-fetched. I could understand "Slaughterhouse 5" but Cat's Cradle isn't that deep into History, just a few mentions of the Manhattan Project and stuff. hmm.
Actually, it was for my final project. One of the choices was read three dystopia books (or watch six dystopia movies) and write a paper where you would explain which you thought would be most likely to happen for the United States (because it was US history) or what mixture of the books would be most likely to happen. Reading three novels in a week was cool.
Dean will say yes that it's awesome but I think it's just ok. I got really mad at the stupidity and madness in the end. Definitely read Mother Night. But, read some of his other books first. I read Mother Night first and now all of his other books just don't cut it.